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Msg# 7425
Reviews for 7 Sept - Part 1 Posted by Rhapsody September 07, 2006 - 13:43:26 Topic ID# 7425Title: Man of the North · Author: Marta · Races: Men: Aragorn
Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 684
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 18:33:00
This drabble succeeds in capturing the moment and the mind of the King
as he contemplates the stranger before him. I appreciated his memories
of himself as a stranger in Gondor. Truly, travel broadens! Good job,
well written.
-----------------------------------
Title: Heirs of the Oath · Author: Elana · Races: Men: Other
Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 151
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 18:34:54
A beautifully done drabble pair, capturing the solemnity of the moment
as well as the emotions of the men involved.
-----------------------------------
Title: Hands of Healing · Author: Cuthalion · Genres: Romance: Rohan ·
ID: 102
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 18:40:53
I usually don't like movieverse--I figure if I want Peter Jackson's AU,
I'll watch the films, which I love--but this vignette is quite
successful at bridging the book and the movie. It's very poetic and
romantic, capturing both Eowyn's despair and the awakening of hope. You
can see this Eowyn riding to death after she believes Aragorn to be
either riding toward death and/or to have decisively rejected her love.
-----------------------------------
Title: Little Lad Lost · Author: Citrine · Races: Hobbits: Children ·
ID: 895
Reviewer: Raksha the Demon · 2006-08-03 19:23:52
A sweet and fluffy, but not cloying story.
Baby Pippin manages to crawl away from Bag End up and end up, in all
places, in the arms of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
Excellent characterisation of Lobelia, who does have a heart under all
that status-hungry greed. I particularly like her reactions at the end.
The writer handles her prickly nature quite well.
Very entertaining.
-----------------------------------
Title: Was It For This? · Author: aervir · Genres: Drama: General
Fixed-Length Ficlet · ID: 204
Reviewer: Raksha the Demon · 2006-08-03 19:29:58
A thoughtfully elegaic piece, succint and hard-hitting, on the deaths,
so close in time, of the heirs of the lords of Gondor and the Mark.
Excellent use of Wilfrid Owen's work.
-----------------------------------
Title: Making Merry · Author: Marigold · Races: Hobbits · ID: 663
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:21:20
This little vignette captures a magical moment for Merry Brandybuck. He
and Pippin pay a visit to the Greenwood, and join in a celebration with
the Elves. The author captures his amazed delight so beautifully, and
makes it truly an enchantment.
-----------------------------------
Title: The Gardener's Wife · Author: Vistula the Dunadan · Races:
Hobbits · ID: 720
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:21:32
An interesting look at one possibility for the absence of Bell Gamgee in
her children's later life. Well written and touching, although I found
the premise somewhat unhobbity.
-----------------------------------
Title: Suspicion · Author: Gandalfs apprentice · Genres: Humor:
Fixed-Length Ficlet · ID: 791
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:21:47
How very Sam. His suspicions of Strider were canon, and here they are
humorously and realistically explained. Why on earth would anyone need
all those weapons, after all?
-----------------------------------
Title: And all in evil ended be · Author: Werecat · Genres: Humor:
Fixed-Length Ficlet · ID: 122
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:22:04
So THAT explains it! I should have known they were the Spawn of Morgoth!
This was almost to true to be funny!
-----------------------------------
Title: Merry's Graduation · Author: pippinfan88 · Times: Late Third Age:
The Shire · ID: 125
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:22:18
I eagerly followed this story when it was first being posted. A bit of a
growing-up story for both Merry and Pippin--both of them learn important
lessons about friendship, and how sometimes help must come in a
different form than one envisions. There is also a bit of intrigue of
the Tookish variety. This is a very good read.
-----------------------------------
Title: The Gift of Gold · Author: pippinfan88 · Genres: Drama:
Remembering · ID: 267
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:22:37
This is such a sweet idea. A story within a story: at the wedding of
Goldilocks Gamgee to Faramir Took, her Aunt Marigold remembers a special
Yule gift, and passes it on to her neice. I love the hobbity sense of
family in this, and the love that is shown.
-----------------------------------
Title: From the Journal of Frodo Baggins · Author: MysteriousWays ·
Genres: Drama: Featuring Frodo or Sam · ID: 61
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:23:22
This is an interesting little peice, post-Quest Frodo in a pensive and
thoughtful mood, sad and wistful, but not especially angsty. Nicely done.
-----------------------------------
Title: Lay of Lord and Lady · Author: Vana Tuivana · Genres: Drama:
Poetry · ID: 629
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:24:02
Although I am only slightly familiar with this event, the poem
immediately brought it to my mind, and I was able to follow the story.
The rhyme and scansion are very nearly perfect--an excellent job!
-----------------------------------
Title: Rest and Recreation · Author: Raksha the Demon · Races:
Cross-Cultural · ID: 700
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:24:40
I love stories of Boromir's time in Rivendell, before he has begun to
know his companions. This one is delightful, as Boromir's frustration
and boredom lead him to challenge an unknown--to him--Elf to spar. It
turns out to be, of course, Glorfindel, mightiest of Warriors!
The bout is described with wonderful accuracy, and I could just see it
unfolding before my eyes.
And the best part was that the Ring scarcely figured in to it at all!
-----------------------------------
Title: Spring Rites · Author: Gwynnyd · Genres: Romance: Rohan · ID: 842
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:25:45
A very interesting connection of the Rohirric culture to that of pagan
England. I really liked the reactions of Lothiriel.
-----------------------------------
Title: Fos' Almir · Author: Bill The Pony · Races: Hobbits: Post-Grey
Havens · ID: 913
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:26:10
A very different look at the possibilities of Frodo's and Sam's reunion
in the West, this had a dreamlike quality to it. In this, Sam arrives
full of doubt, and finds Frodo changed more than he expected. He is
offered his own chance at healing. There was a very mystical feel to
this story.
-----------------------------------
Title: Return Journey to the Mountain · Author: Dínossiel · Races:
Hobbits: Children · ID: 984
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:27:43
I am very impressed with this seven-year-old's knowledge of
canon--getting Merry's and Pippin's age right, and knowing who Paladin
was, for example, as well as her vivid imagination.
-----------------------------------
Title: Remember This Day Little Brother · Author: laiquendi · Genres:
Drama: Poetry · ID: 923
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:28:03
Good use of movie-verse events and of poetic conventions, especially
that of repetition. The rhyme scheme was also well thought-out.
-----------------------------------
Title: The One · Author: Linda Hoyland/Raksha the Demon CoAuthors ·
Races: Men: Featuring Aragorn · ID: 852
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:29:10
The authors account for that instant connection and knowledge that
seemed to exist between Faramir and the King whom he had never met. Very
plausible.
-----------------------------------
Title: She Cries Your Name · Author: MysteriousWays · Genres: Romance ·
ID: 710
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:29:22
In this author's AU, Frodo and his bride share a time of passion. Very
sweet, given her OC and the AU the author has created.
-----------------------------------
Title: In Stitches · Author: Pearl Took · Races: Hobbits: Children · ID: 132
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:30:01
This is so sweet. I am most especially fond of this author's Eglantine,
who is always wise and patient and loving and understanding when it
comes to her youngest child. This story is no exception.
-----------------------------------
Title: Tharbad Crossing · Author: Gandalfs apprentice · Races: Men:
Steward's Sons Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 253
Reviewer: Nancy Brooke · 2006-08-03 20:43:10
I like that both Boromir's struggle and his strength come from his family.
-----------------------------------
Title: Was It For This? · Author: aervir · Genres: Drama: General
Fixed-Length Ficlet · ID: 204
Reviewer: Nancy Brooke · 2006-08-03 20:46:07
This fic illuminates very interesting comparisons I had never thought of
before. The last paragraph was very insightful in general, but this line
I loved: "Was it for this they grew tall and fair and bold ..."
-----------------------------------
Title: Too Many Names · Author: Tanaqui · Races: Men: Aragorn
Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 866
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 20:54:49
I love this series. Each cluster of sentences captures each name in some
unique and meaningful way. For example, you use Estel to show Gilraen's
"I have kept no hope for myself"--and in a way that she probably indeed
felt. How impossible would Aragorn's aims have seemed to her?
I think my very favorite, though, is poor Faramir struggling with that
eccentric man's choice of name for his House. A delightful exchange
between him and Merry!
The "Stick-at-naught" is playful and, again, unexpected. And it paints a
lovely picture of the delights to come.
-----------------------------------
Title: Flotsam · Author: Salsify · Times: The Great Years: Vignette · ID: 85
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 21:11:26
A thoughtful and well-written vignette. Indeed, there are many innocent
victims in the tales of Middle-earth, and they seldom get much
attention--and may I say, especially from Tolkien. "Heroic romance"
doesn't usually take up such subjects. But in fact, even in the most
just war, the innocent will suffer.
Thanks for writing this.
-----------------------------------
Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 684
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 18:33:00
This drabble succeeds in capturing the moment and the mind of the King
as he contemplates the stranger before him. I appreciated his memories
of himself as a stranger in Gondor. Truly, travel broadens! Good job,
well written.
-----------------------------------
Title: Heirs of the Oath · Author: Elana · Races: Men: Other
Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 151
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 18:34:54
A beautifully done drabble pair, capturing the solemnity of the moment
as well as the emotions of the men involved.
-----------------------------------
Title: Hands of Healing · Author: Cuthalion · Genres: Romance: Rohan ·
ID: 102
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 18:40:53
I usually don't like movieverse--I figure if I want Peter Jackson's AU,
I'll watch the films, which I love--but this vignette is quite
successful at bridging the book and the movie. It's very poetic and
romantic, capturing both Eowyn's despair and the awakening of hope. You
can see this Eowyn riding to death after she believes Aragorn to be
either riding toward death and/or to have decisively rejected her love.
-----------------------------------
Title: Little Lad Lost · Author: Citrine · Races: Hobbits: Children ·
ID: 895
Reviewer: Raksha the Demon · 2006-08-03 19:23:52
A sweet and fluffy, but not cloying story.
Baby Pippin manages to crawl away from Bag End up and end up, in all
places, in the arms of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
Excellent characterisation of Lobelia, who does have a heart under all
that status-hungry greed. I particularly like her reactions at the end.
The writer handles her prickly nature quite well.
Very entertaining.
-----------------------------------
Title: Was It For This? · Author: aervir · Genres: Drama: General
Fixed-Length Ficlet · ID: 204
Reviewer: Raksha the Demon · 2006-08-03 19:29:58
A thoughtfully elegaic piece, succint and hard-hitting, on the deaths,
so close in time, of the heirs of the lords of Gondor and the Mark.
Excellent use of Wilfrid Owen's work.
-----------------------------------
Title: Making Merry · Author: Marigold · Races: Hobbits · ID: 663
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:21:20
This little vignette captures a magical moment for Merry Brandybuck. He
and Pippin pay a visit to the Greenwood, and join in a celebration with
the Elves. The author captures his amazed delight so beautifully, and
makes it truly an enchantment.
-----------------------------------
Title: The Gardener's Wife · Author: Vistula the Dunadan · Races:
Hobbits · ID: 720
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:21:32
An interesting look at one possibility for the absence of Bell Gamgee in
her children's later life. Well written and touching, although I found
the premise somewhat unhobbity.
-----------------------------------
Title: Suspicion · Author: Gandalfs apprentice · Genres: Humor:
Fixed-Length Ficlet · ID: 791
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:21:47
How very Sam. His suspicions of Strider were canon, and here they are
humorously and realistically explained. Why on earth would anyone need
all those weapons, after all?
-----------------------------------
Title: And all in evil ended be · Author: Werecat · Genres: Humor:
Fixed-Length Ficlet · ID: 122
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:22:04
So THAT explains it! I should have known they were the Spawn of Morgoth!
This was almost to true to be funny!
-----------------------------------
Title: Merry's Graduation · Author: pippinfan88 · Times: Late Third Age:
The Shire · ID: 125
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:22:18
I eagerly followed this story when it was first being posted. A bit of a
growing-up story for both Merry and Pippin--both of them learn important
lessons about friendship, and how sometimes help must come in a
different form than one envisions. There is also a bit of intrigue of
the Tookish variety. This is a very good read.
-----------------------------------
Title: The Gift of Gold · Author: pippinfan88 · Genres: Drama:
Remembering · ID: 267
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:22:37
This is such a sweet idea. A story within a story: at the wedding of
Goldilocks Gamgee to Faramir Took, her Aunt Marigold remembers a special
Yule gift, and passes it on to her neice. I love the hobbity sense of
family in this, and the love that is shown.
-----------------------------------
Title: From the Journal of Frodo Baggins · Author: MysteriousWays ·
Genres: Drama: Featuring Frodo or Sam · ID: 61
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:23:22
This is an interesting little peice, post-Quest Frodo in a pensive and
thoughtful mood, sad and wistful, but not especially angsty. Nicely done.
-----------------------------------
Title: Lay of Lord and Lady · Author: Vana Tuivana · Genres: Drama:
Poetry · ID: 629
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:24:02
Although I am only slightly familiar with this event, the poem
immediately brought it to my mind, and I was able to follow the story.
The rhyme and scansion are very nearly perfect--an excellent job!
-----------------------------------
Title: Rest and Recreation · Author: Raksha the Demon · Races:
Cross-Cultural · ID: 700
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:24:40
I love stories of Boromir's time in Rivendell, before he has begun to
know his companions. This one is delightful, as Boromir's frustration
and boredom lead him to challenge an unknown--to him--Elf to spar. It
turns out to be, of course, Glorfindel, mightiest of Warriors!
The bout is described with wonderful accuracy, and I could just see it
unfolding before my eyes.
And the best part was that the Ring scarcely figured in to it at all!
-----------------------------------
Title: Spring Rites · Author: Gwynnyd · Genres: Romance: Rohan · ID: 842
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:25:45
A very interesting connection of the Rohirric culture to that of pagan
England. I really liked the reactions of Lothiriel.
-----------------------------------
Title: Fos' Almir · Author: Bill The Pony · Races: Hobbits: Post-Grey
Havens · ID: 913
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:26:10
A very different look at the possibilities of Frodo's and Sam's reunion
in the West, this had a dreamlike quality to it. In this, Sam arrives
full of doubt, and finds Frodo changed more than he expected. He is
offered his own chance at healing. There was a very mystical feel to
this story.
-----------------------------------
Title: Return Journey to the Mountain · Author: Dínossiel · Races:
Hobbits: Children · ID: 984
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:27:43
I am very impressed with this seven-year-old's knowledge of
canon--getting Merry's and Pippin's age right, and knowing who Paladin
was, for example, as well as her vivid imagination.
-----------------------------------
Title: Remember This Day Little Brother · Author: laiquendi · Genres:
Drama: Poetry · ID: 923
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:28:03
Good use of movie-verse events and of poetic conventions, especially
that of repetition. The rhyme scheme was also well thought-out.
-----------------------------------
Title: The One · Author: Linda Hoyland/Raksha the Demon CoAuthors ·
Races: Men: Featuring Aragorn · ID: 852
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:29:10
The authors account for that instant connection and knowledge that
seemed to exist between Faramir and the King whom he had never met. Very
plausible.
-----------------------------------
Title: She Cries Your Name · Author: MysteriousWays · Genres: Romance ·
ID: 710
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:29:22
In this author's AU, Frodo and his bride share a time of passion. Very
sweet, given her OC and the AU the author has created.
-----------------------------------
Title: In Stitches · Author: Pearl Took · Races: Hobbits: Children · ID: 132
Reviewer: Dreamflower · 2006-08-03 20:30:01
This is so sweet. I am most especially fond of this author's Eglantine,
who is always wise and patient and loving and understanding when it
comes to her youngest child. This story is no exception.
-----------------------------------
Title: Tharbad Crossing · Author: Gandalfs apprentice · Races: Men:
Steward's Sons Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 253
Reviewer: Nancy Brooke · 2006-08-03 20:43:10
I like that both Boromir's struggle and his strength come from his family.
-----------------------------------
Title: Was It For This? · Author: aervir · Genres: Drama: General
Fixed-Length Ficlet · ID: 204
Reviewer: Nancy Brooke · 2006-08-03 20:46:07
This fic illuminates very interesting comparisons I had never thought of
before. The last paragraph was very insightful in general, but this line
I loved: "Was it for this they grew tall and fair and bold ..."
-----------------------------------
Title: Too Many Names · Author: Tanaqui · Races: Men: Aragorn
Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 866
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 20:54:49
I love this series. Each cluster of sentences captures each name in some
unique and meaningful way. For example, you use Estel to show Gilraen's
"I have kept no hope for myself"--and in a way that she probably indeed
felt. How impossible would Aragorn's aims have seemed to her?
I think my very favorite, though, is poor Faramir struggling with that
eccentric man's choice of name for his House. A delightful exchange
between him and Merry!
The "Stick-at-naught" is playful and, again, unexpected. And it paints a
lovely picture of the delights to come.
-----------------------------------
Title: Flotsam · Author: Salsify · Times: The Great Years: Vignette · ID: 85
Reviewer: Gandalfs apprentice · 2006-08-03 21:11:26
A thoughtful and well-written vignette. Indeed, there are many innocent
victims in the tales of Middle-earth, and they seldom get much
attention--and may I say, especially from Tolkien. "Heroic romance"
doesn't usually take up such subjects. But in fact, even in the most
just war, the innocent will suffer.
Thanks for writing this.
-----------------------------------
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